father-in-godship

Updated: May 9, 2025

One has reached the woolsack by political thimble-rigging, which means starting patriot, and turning, when the price is offered, a ministerial hack. He forks a drunken dean, his son, into a Father-in-Godship with all the trifling temporalities attendant on the same.

Various - International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850